leon : Idioms & Phrases
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jean bernard leon foucault
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noun French physicist who determined the speed of light and showed that it travels slower in water than in air; invented the Foucault pendulum and the gyroscope (1819-1868)
Foucault.
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juan ponce de leon
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noun Spanish explorer who accompanied Columbus on his second trip in 1493; in 1513 he discovered Florida while searching for the legendary Fountain of Youth (1460-1521)
Juan Ponce de Leon.
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leon battista alberti
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noun Italian architect and painter; pioneering theoretician of Renaissance architecture (1404-1472)
Alberti.
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leon trotsky
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noun Russian revolutionary and Communist theorist who helped Lenin and built up the army; he was ousted from the Communist Party by Stalin and eventually assassinated in Mexico (1879-1940)
Trotsky; Lev Davidovich Bronstein.
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ponce de leon
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noun Spanish explorer who accompanied Columbus on his second trip in 1493; in 1513 he discovered Florida while searching for the legendary Fountain of Youth (1460-1521)
Juan Ponce de Leon.
